New Ideas from "Journalism that Matters"

"How can the press and the public help each other? What’s possible now? How do we activate new forms of civic and public engagement?"

Journalism that Matters hosted action-oriented discussions to address the above questions and others during an event called "Re-imagining News & Community in the Pacific Northwest" in January 2010 at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Journalists, civic voices, community activists, broadcasters, educators, ethnic media, students, emergent voices, digital entrepreneurs, business people, and other participants from several nations discussed new information sources, economic solutions, and accountability models that work to create a revitalized journalism that matters in a society grounded in social networking and civic engagement models that effect dynamic change.

You're welcome to read the sessions notes, watch the videos, and see the graphic recordings on the wiki. For example, here are just a few of the Open Space session notes:

1. What place does mass media have in hyperlocal journalism?
2. What can academia do for the "new" news?
3. How do you make investigative journalism collaborative and sustaina...
4. After the crash, how can we re-connect local audiences with journal...
5. What is "possibility" (solution) journalism and how do I do it?
6. How can we make it easier to publish and find proven solutions to c...
7. How do we steward a civic communications commons in King County?
8. How to strengthen transparency and trust in medical research?
9. What aspects of traditional media journalism need to be preserved a...
10. Reader commenting: How can you manage it effectively with limited r...

Graphic Recording from Day One:

Journalism That Matters Graphic Recording (Opening Night).jpg

This Open Space event focused on the Pacific Northwest (such as Seattle, Vancouver BC, and Portland) but the conversations are relevant to other regions.

(source: text adapted from Journalism that Matters website)